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Janet Porter is president of Faith2Action*: turning people of faith into people of action to WIN the cultural war TOGETHER for life, liberty and the family. Author of "The Criminalization of Christianity," she hosts a daily radio program from 2-3 p.m. Eastern and a daily radio commentary heard in 224 markets and at www.f2a.org.
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Let me tell you why the race for the Republican nomination is not over yet. Notwithstanding Saturday Night Live skits and political pundits, Gov. Mike Huckabee doesn’t need to reach 1,191 delegates to win the nomination – all he has to do is keep John McCain from doing so. And that may have just gotten easier.

A Huckabee nomination isn’t so “mathematically impossible” when you consider that he may be the only one who can spend any money in the race from here on out. Highlights from a Friday Washington Post article explain:

He can’t get out of the matching grant program because there isn’t an FEC quorum to vote on it.

Knowingly violating the spending limit is a criminal offense that could put McCain at risk of stiff fines and up to five years in prison.

Don’t you hate it when your ideas come back to bite you? Maybe now he’s starting to understand that government regulations that stifle free speech are a bad idea. Maybe this personal lesson could turn McCain around on his McCain-Feingold gag rule, too.

If you care about life, liberty, marriage and the family, we must now go full throttle and give this everything we’ve got and spend every dime we can right now.

Get rid of all the “mathematical impossibilities” discussion you’ve been fed by the political pundits. In fact, let me shed a little light on just whom you’ve been listening to. Given recent events, I believe a more appropriate definition of pundit is in order:

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1. n. a self-declared expert who, in an effort to achieve media prominence, communicates bias, random thoughts and wild guesses with confidence and arrogance in order to convince the masses of a desired result. 2. v. to be dead wrong. 3. v. to “correct” dead wrong political opinion with more dead wrong political opinion until a certain result is reached.

For example, first they said Rudy Giuliani was the “certain” nominee. But that didn’t go so well. Then there was Fred Thompson, who was the media rock star until just about the time he entered the race. Then, with the help of many who mistakenly call themselves “conservatives” and “leaders,” Mitt Romney became the “shoe-in.” The pundits were also the ones who declared John McCain’s campaign “dead on arrival” – after all, “people were fired.” The ones who should have been fired were the pundits.

But now, people are starting to see that, and through this process, new leaders are being raised up who know that God is more powerful than the pundits and the polls.

As if opposition to the campaign-finance reform gag rule weren’t enough, I’m supporting Gov. Huckabee because I actually believe what we’ve been saying for three and a half decades: that our goal is to restore legal protection to children awaiting their birthdays, even it takes a Human Life Amendment to do it. And, Gov. Huckabee is the only candidate who shares that view. But let me give you two more reasons why you should support Mike Huckabee: Joshua and Rachel Hubbard.

These two kids were formerly frozen embryos, vulnerable to the whims of those who would experiment on them and snuff out their individual, unique, human lives.

Not only would these two kids NOT be protected under a McCain, Obama or Clinton administration, but each would force even the most pro-life taxpayer to foot the bill to kill them.

In the new television ad produced by RoeGone.org, 2-year old Joshua asks a simple yet poignant question to Sen. McCain: “What about me?”

I’ll be with Gov. Huckabee today for a rally at 1 p.m. at the downtown Columbus Hyatt Regency (350 North High Street) and a rally at 4:30 p.m. at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio (next door to Kings Island near Cincinnati), and am traveling Ohio cities from Akron to Zanesville with Janet Huckabee on Wednesday.

Gary and Ronda Hubbard (who asked the “Snowflake baby” question at the Values Voter Debate) will be at the Cincinnati rally with their two adorable children to present Gov. Huckabee this award:

JOSHUA AWARD

Presented to Governor Mike Huckabee,

the only candidate who stands for protecting all children,

including babies like Joshua & Rachel Hubbard,

who were once frozen embryos before being adopted.

Presented this 26th day of February, 2008, in Mason, Ohio.

Thank you, Governor Huckabee,

for your unwavering leadership for life.

And, of course, Gov. Huckabee is the only candidate who supports the Marriage Protection Amendment, too.

Yeah, it’s tough. Sure it’s uphill. But I want a president who won’t give up when the going gets tough. The pundits didn’t much care for a guy named Winston Churchill either, but thank God he “never gave up.”

THIS is the moment when we must surge with every ounce of strength, money and faith that we have, keeping my home state of Ohio’s motto in mind: “With God ALL THINGS are possible.” And when Gov. Mike Huckabee wins in Ohio and Texas, the remaining states (and funds) will follow … while John McCain stands around with his hands in his pockets unable to spend his money because of the rules he helped create.